It's School Time!

Mummifying an Apple!

What will happen?
Our control apple is sitting in a container unpeeled.
Our other apple was covered with 1 1/3 cup of baking soda and 2/3 cups of salt.

Hypothesis:
The boys think the covered apple will stay white and the control apple is going to rot.

We will tell you in a week!

This fun project is brought to you from
Apologia's "Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology"
https://apologia.securesites.net/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_65

Happy Learning!!

Brennan's Baptism

We are so proud of Brennan!
At age 5 Brennan accepted Jesus as his Savior. He had always been afraid to walk down the church isle to make an appointment for Baptism. For 4 years we prayed for his strength in Christ. On Sunday, August 7th, Brennan looked at Brian and I and said I want to walk down and get baptized. I was thrilled, overjoyed and extremely proud of him.

God worked in his heart and He continues to work in Brennan. It is awesome to see God strengthen your children and you all at the same time.

Pastor Mike Kahn, Brian and I's Bible Fellowship teacher, baptized Brennan on Sunday, August 22, 2011. What a precious birthday present Brennan gave himself!!

"Jesus answered, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.
No one gets to the Father except through Me." John 14:6

"If you love Me, you will obey my commands"
John 14:15

Christmas Fun......

It has been a long time since I posted anything on our blog. I have been inspired lately by other blogs that I frequent though. I thought I would share an idea I got from a blog that I visit almost daily to get fun ideas. ~Confessionsofahomeschooler.com ~

We made these hand print snowman ornaments today and they turned out so cute. The supplies are all on sale at Joann's Craft Store and very inexpensive. (I already had some paint pens and a sharpie). These are great for last minute gifts or keep them for yourself. 8>)

We hope you have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy celebrating our Savior's birth.

Aundrea

http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/2009/12/handprint-snowman-ornament.html

My Man and His Truck

Now some of you reading this will not understand this at all and then others will be able to relate and feel my pain laugh with me at the same time. Today was a beautiful spring day so we, of course, decided to drive our ’72 Bronco to the baseball fields. It was the perfect day to ride with the wind in your hair.

We were just about home and all of the sudden which is not abnormal for anything ‘all of the sudden’ to happen the cable to the gas pedal breaks in half. Yes! The gas pedal was flat on the floorboard. It was perfect timing, if there is such a thing when your gas pedal wire suddenly breaks in half, we cruised right in to a parking lot under some beautiful shade trees.

Being married to my wonderful husband for 13 years (14 years in May), I have learned to stay quiet. As opposed to getting irritated when he doesn’t call AAA right away! I really do stay quiet and find it only encourages my hubby and our relationship. ; ) My job? Helping when asked and keeping the boys busy with reviewing skip counting, history songs and praise songs. Oh, did I mention it was 12:15pm (Yea, we hadn’t eaten yet).

Well, for 45 minutes Brian worked on the pedal and worked on the pedal……

I am always very impressed with Brian and his ability to continue trying to figure things out when he doesn’t know exactly what to do. I am sure I could do the same. (I do not have that character trait and am still working on it.) I admire him greatly for that trait.

After 45 minutes Brian tells me to call AAA so I do. While I am on the phone with them I notice him working a tad faster. I get off the phone with them and 2 minutes later he tells me to call them back and cancel. He fixed it! Mind you the gas pedal is still on the floorboard!!

Again, I have learned to say O.K. So what did he do? He improvised his own hand throttle. What!?! Yeah, again, quiet mouth and encouraging wife. (That me!) I canceled AAA and off we went. LOL! My husband drove us home in our ’72 Bronco.

The best part about this story!?! Our boys witnessed their dad figure out how to fix the Bronco with a calm spirit and best of all how do keep trying when it doesn’t work the first time. What an awesome family experience! Love you honey! Oh, and here is a picture of our drive home. ; )

Thank you Walmart lady...

Last week our family took a trip to Walmart to gather our supplies for camping. (Yes! It was a fabulous trip!) -- Not so much the Walmart trip but the camping trip was fantastic. : )

I believe that particular trip to Walmart will forever be engraved in my four and half year old's head. As we were walking down the canned soup isle, Aaron stopped to watch what the ladies were doing. If you know Aaron at all you know he is VERY curious and could very well be Curious George's first cousin. (LOL!)

The kind Walmart lady noticed him and turned to Aaron. She said in a very serious voice, "This is what happens when you don't go to college." Since that time Aaron has told multiple people that he will for sure be going to college because he does not intend on putting cans on a shelf and counting them. : )

Thank you Walmart lady for being an inspiration to my child -- because you know sometimes it just doesn't matter what Mom and Dad say. ; }

Paper Mache, Baking Soda and Vinegar! Oh My!

We are learning about volcanoes!!

Brennan and Aaron had a great time making their paper mache volcano!

Today they painted it -- getting it ready for the explosion!!

I love watching my children learn!

The Exploding Volcano!!

Snow in Tampa?

Steve Spangler Science is the best! Our boys would LOVE to see snow. At our geographical location that is near impossible (although I might argue that point this week). Santa was good enough bring snow in the boy's stockings and they made their own!

This is as close as they may get this winter but they played in the "snow" in the back yard and had a blast.

That evening we had a family smore party. We love building bonfires in the backyard and roasting marshmallows. Who can resisit adding chocolate to them? I know one person -- my hubby! He doesn't particularly enjoy roasted marshmallows but he does like to play with fire - LOL! And the rest of us benefit --- He still roasts the marshmallows but we get to eat them!